• End-of-term Jury
  • Architecture d’accompagnement: housing versus public space in the age of government.
  • Domestic Architecture and the Emergence Architecture as a profession in the 16th century.
  • The Facade: From Wall to Project
  • Dip14 book on Sacred Space out in Spring 2014

End-of-term Jury

Join us tomorrow from 10 on at 37 Bedford Square, First Floor Front, for a day-long discussion with guests Charles Rice, Adrian Lahoud, Douglas Spencer, and Thomas Weaver. This year’s theme – the Grand Domestic Revolution – will be explored through 13 theses. The researches will touch a broad range [...]

Architecture d’accompagnement: housing versus public space in the age of government.

Seminar in Diploma 14′s Unit Space, Tuesday, November 26, at 4 pm. Architecture d’accompagnement, or formulaic architecture, developed in Paris between the 1600s and the 1800s – a period marked by the emergence of modern government models. Accompagnement is a simplified classicism, devoid of figurative details and reduced to its [...]

Domestic Architecture and the Emergence Architecture as a profession in the 16th century.

Seminar on Tuesday, October 26, at 5 pm, Ground Floor Back Room, 33 Bedford Sq. Domestic architecture – the architecture of houses – has never been the obvious locus of action for architects, neither today, nor when architecture as a profession was born. Before the 16th century architectural expertise was [...]

The Facade: From Wall to Project

Seminar on Tuesday, October 22, Studio 2, 4 pm. If in ancient European and Mediterranean cultures the domestic environment had been hidden and protected by blank walls with little or no architectural features addressing the space of circulation, in the Middle Ages the rise of a new ethos produced an [...]

Dip14 book on Sacred Space out in Spring 2014

Diploma 14′s book Rituals and Walls, based on the work of the academic year 2013-2014 on sacred space, will be published by AA Publications in Spring 2014. Fourteen projects – from an interfaith school in Strasbourg to a mosque prototye for Moscow, from an Islamic Women’s Centre in Paris to [...]

 

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End-of-term Jury

End-of-term Jury

Join us tomorrow from 10 on at 37 Bedford Square, First Floor Front, for a day-long discussion with guests Charles Rice, Adrian Lahoud, Douglas Spencer, and Thomas Weaver. This year’s theme – the Grand Domestic Revolution –...

 

Architecture d’accompagnement: housing versus public space in the age of government.

Architecture d’accompagnement: housing versus public space in the age of government.

Seminar in Diploma 14′s Unit Space, Tuesday, November 26, at 4 pm. Architecture d’accompagnement, or formulaic architecture, developed in Paris between the 1600s and the 1800s – a period marked by the emergence of modern government...

 

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Great mosque of Timbuctu

Great mosque of Timbuctu

The Great Mosque of Timbuctu, redrawn by René Caillié around 1830. The mosque was built with sundried mud blocks.

 

San Vitale, Ravenna

San Vitale, Ravenna

  This church was consecrated in 545 and is one of the best examples of Byzantine architecture in Italy. The similarities with Saint Sergius and Bacchus caused the speculation that they might share the same author.

 
 

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End-of-term Jury

End-of-term Jury

Join us tomorrow from 10 on at 37 Bedford Square, First Floor Front, for a day-long discussion with guests Charles Rice, Adrian Lahoud, Douglas Spencer, and Thomas Weaver. This year’s theme – the Grand Domestic Revolution –...

 

Architecture d’accompagnement: housing versus public space in the age of government.

Architecture d’accompagnement: housing versus public space in the age of government.

Seminar in Diploma 14′s Unit Space, Tuesday, November 26, at 4 pm. Architecture d’accompagnement, or formulaic architecture, developed in Paris between the 1600s and the 1800s – a period marked by the emergence of modern government...

 

Domestic Architecture and the Emergence Architecture as a profession in the 16th century.

Domestic Architecture and the Emergence Architecture as a profession in the 16th century.

Seminar on Tuesday, October 26, at 5 pm, Ground Floor Back Room, 33 Bedford Sq. Domestic architecture – the architecture of houses – has never been the obvious locus of action for architects, neither today, nor when architecture as a profession...

 

The Facade: From Wall to Project

The Facade: From Wall to Project

Seminar on Tuesday, October 22, Studio 2, 4 pm. If in ancient European and Mediterranean cultures the domestic environment had been hidden and protected by blank walls with little or no architectural features addressing the space of circulation,...

 

Dip14 book on Sacred Space out in Spring 2014

Dip14 book on Sacred Space out in Spring 2014

Diploma 14′s book Rituals and Walls, based on the work of the academic year 2013-2014 on sacred space, will be published by AA Publications in Spring 2014. Fourteen projects – from an interfaith school in Strasbourg to a mosque...

 

The Grand Domestic Revolution

The Grand Domestic Revolution

Find online now at diploma14.com the extended brief of The Grand Domestic Revolution, Diploma 14′s research for the Academic Year 2013-2014. While the noun ‘house’ emphasizes the symbolic dimension of the domestic realm, the term...

 

Less is Enough

Less is Enough

Out now for Strelka Press Less is Enough by Pier Vittorio Aureli, a reflection that redefines asceticism not as reductionist call to sacrifice but rather as an art form, act of political resistance, conceptual strategy – from cistercian...

 

Rome Field Trip

Rome Field Trip

  If you are in Rome, you’re welcome to join us! For the detailed schedule, please contact info@diploma14.com.

 

End of term Jury

End of term Jury

  Diploma 14 discussed their 14 in-progress theses with guests Carlos Villanueva Brandt (AADip10), Natasha Sandmeier (AADip9), Monia De Marchi (AA First Year Director), John Palmesino (AADip4), Javier Castanon (AA TS),  Adrian Lahoud...

 

Great mosque of Timbuctu

Great mosque of Timbuctu

The Great Mosque of Timbuctu, redrawn by René Caillié around 1830. The mosque was built with sundried mud blocks.